USB

[aox0m0xoa]

has anyone else ever had problems with their usb randomly powering down? it happens to me alot, at least once a day, it wouldnt be so bad except i never restart, so if i want to use my game controller i have to restart to turn on usb again. ive tried all 4 ports, 2 on the motherboard, and 2 on a bracket.

[DukeLeto]

I've never had that problem...I didn't even know USB ports COULD power down. :P

[Apollyon]

nor did I

get USB 2 :P

[Nyarlathotep]

I never had that before. You might check for BIOS/motherboard chipset updates.

[aox0m0xoa]

theres a bios update, but that seems like a lot of work, perhaps ill get to that later. but i actually thinkn its a windows problem, becuase after this recent format my computer has been going down the crapper more and more.

[gryphon]

Never had it, and I work with Win2K. Have both a USB keyboard and mouse [ logitech ]. Somtimes there is an USB external Hard drive but that's not connected for long. That one also doesn give me any problems.

So as far as I know [ and also with Linux ] you can't power down a onboard USB hub. mayby turn the signal off. That reminds me, if you don't have enought resources free at a certain time taht could be the problem. An USB hub uses a lot of them [ in my opinion ]. Besides that I have no clue.

:)

[aox0m0xoa]

no, its not a resource problem it powers down overnight alot, when nothing is happening. but i really do think its a windows problem. but i just ordered new stuff today so it wont matter soon. ;D

[Nyarlathotep]

What did you order ?

[aox0m0xoa]

xp 2100, gigabyte ga-7vax with usb2 and 8x agp, volcano7, and 256mb of pc3200 and arctic silver thermal paste

[Nyarlathotep]

Not bad... Hope it solves your problems :)